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9 papers

cs.AR2026

How Can Reinforcement Learning Achieve Expert-level Placement?

Ruo-Tong Chen, Ke Xue, Chengrui Gao +7

Chip placement is a critical step in physical design. While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have recently emerged, their training primarily focuses on wirelength optimiza…

cs.AR2026

FlowPlace: Flow Matching for Chip Placement

Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi +6

Chip placement plays an important role in physical design. While generative models like diffusion models offer promising learning-based solutions, current methods have the followin…

cs.AR2026

Open3DBench: Open-Source Benchmark for 3D-IC Backend Implementation and PPA Evaluation

Yunqi Shi, Chengrui Gao, Wanqi Ren +6

This work introduces Open3DBench, an open-source 3D-IC backend implementation benchmark built upon the OpenROAD-flow-scripts framework, enabling comprehensive evaluation of power,…

cs.AR2025

ReMaP: Macro Placement by Recursively Prototyping and Packing Tree-based Relocating

Yunqi Shi, Xi Lin, Zhiang Wang +8

This work introduces the ReMaP method, which generates expert-quality macro placements through recursively prototyping and packing tree-based relocating. We first perf…

cs.LG2025

BBOPlace-Bench: Benchmarking Black-Box Optimization for Chip Placement

Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Rong-Xi Tan +5

Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design, and black-box optimization (BBO) has been applied to it for decades. Early BBO efforts, however, were limited by immature pro…

cs.LG2025

Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models

Ren-Jian Wang, Ke Xue, Zeyu Qin +7

Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence.…